Word: fractionation
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...mother in a plant," says Miss Geissler, "is only a fraction of a work unit because she puts a new strain on laundries, shops, nurses, hospitals and other services. A New York planebuilder recently complained that when he hired 5,800 women, he had to get 1,800 men to replace them when they stayed home to wash diapers...
...Shipments of Lend-Lease goods by air transport are only a tiny part of the supplies (of which Lend-Lease was only a fraction) which came over the Burma Road. Far greater supplies were smuggled in from the coast...
Pilgrim's Progress. He rode across the bloody sands of Egypt. He rolled through Matrûh, where Rommel's overturned guns and tanks lay like beetles on their backs in the African sun. He did not destroy Rommel there. Rommel with the fleeing fraction of his army escaped through Hellfire Pass, where a few New Zealanders routed his rear guard...
...appeal to rationality should suffice to make such primitive methods unnecessary. It is the age-old case of people agreeing to certain restrictions for mutual convenience; a selfish and unenlightened fraction of this group can destroy this convenience for the whole community...
...When the star of one of radio's most popular nighttime shows said "Good night," listening dropped sharply. The sponsor's closing commercial was heard by only a fraction of the program's audience...